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showblue22

(1,026 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:04 PM Mar 2020

Why hasn't MSM called WA State for Biden?

This is really unfair the MSM not calling it for Biden. There's a real Biden media black out. We need to call them out.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Why hasn't MSM called WA State for Biden? (Original Post) showblue22 Mar 2020 OP
There's no media blackout. There's this bug going around that's got people a little concerned. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1
Exactly still_one Mar 2020 #5
Oh no!!!! The've cancelled Biden!!!!! comradebillyboy Mar 2020 #2
Yes. showblue22 Mar 2020 #3
So Social Media has called it for Cha Mar 2020 #4
No, most people there vote by mail Sucha NastyWoman Mar 2020 #6
About 83% in kurtcagle Mar 2020 #7
Two things Aquaria Mar 2020 #8
Probably the same reason they just this week called CA for Sanders caraher Mar 2020 #9
 

The Velveteen Ocelot

(120,903 posts)
1. There's no media blackout. There's this bug going around that's got people a little concerned.
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:05 PM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

comradebillyboy

(10,467 posts)
2. Oh no!!!! The've cancelled Biden!!!!!
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:11 PM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

showblue22

(1,026 posts)
3. Yes.
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:13 PM
Mar 2020

MSM is working against Biden.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Cha

(305,440 posts)
4. So Social Media has called it for
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:15 PM
Mar 2020

Biden but not M$M?! That's weird

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,897 posts)
6. No, most people there vote by mail
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:44 PM
Mar 2020

So if it’s close, it will take a few days for votes mailed on Tuesday to be received and counted.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

kurtcagle

(2,321 posts)
7. About 83% in
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:51 PM
Mar 2020

Biden's leading by about 28,000 votes, last I checked. He'll win it - they're now mainly into the more recent vote-by-mail and same day ballots now, and the lead is only widening.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Aquaria

(1,076 posts)
8. Two things
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:53 PM
Mar 2020

1) They're probably waiting for the final results, because Biden may have a 26K vote lead, but around 250K votes remain uncounted.

2) Never trust the MSM. To get the real story, you have to go local sometimes:

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/mar/12/biden-likely-to-take-most-washington-delegates-lea/

Biden likely to take majority of Washington delegates after more votes counted

UPDATED: Thu., March 12, 2020

By Kip Hill

Joe Biden appeared headed for a majority of Washington’s 89 pledged delegates to the national convention after more votes in the state’s Democratic presidential primary were counted Thursday.

With a quarter-million ballots remaining to be counted, both Democratic and Republican, Biden held a 26,000-vote lead on Bernie Sanders. Late ballots appeared to have broken for the longtime Delaware senator and two-term Vice President, with Sanders posting a 2,000-vote lead on election night.

Biden also retook the lead Thursday in ballots cast in Spokane County for the Democratic primary, one day after Sanders took a 400-plus vote lead.

Biden held a 745-vote edge in the most recent count, with 8,579 ballots left to count in Spokane County. Those ballots could have been cast for either a Democrat or Republican.

Washington residents started voting by mail Feb. 21, and Sanders handily won the Nevada caucus a day later. But Biden began gaining ground with strong showings in the South on Super Tuesday.

As of Thursday’s count, Biden was ahead in 23 of Washington’s 39 counties, including the four with the most registered voters: King, Pierce, Snohomish and Spokane. Sanders was ahead in the central Washington counties of Yakima, Kittitas and Chelan.

Turnout in Spokane County has already far surpassed the party primaries in 2016, though neither Democrats nor Republicans awarded delegates to their national convention based on those contests.

Based on the number of ballots remaining to be counted, turnout in Spokane County will at least top 45% in the primary, with a total of more than 151,000 ballots cast. In 2016, 111,000 Washington voters cast their ballots, good for a turnout of 37.4%.

Another count of Spokane County’s ballots will occur Friday. The election results will be certified March 27; the parties will then assign delegates who are scheduled to be selected at upcoming caucuses later this spring.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

caraher

(6,308 posts)
9. Probably the same reason they just this week called CA for Sanders
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 12:26 AM
Mar 2020

Maybe they just want to get it right?

Regardless, the narrative I see everywhere is Sanders needed not merely to win WA but win it big. He did neither. The MSM buried Sanders Tuesday night. There's no conspiracy.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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